Food Sovereignty

Food Sovereignty is defined as:


 * "Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets, and; to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources. Food sovereignty does not negate trade, but rather, it promotes the formulation of trade policies and practices that serve the rights of peoples to safe, healthy and ecologically sustainable production."
 * - Statement on People’s Food Sovereignty” by Via Campesina et. al.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * La Via Campesina
 * Food First